Ref: "Kentucky Ante-Bellum Portraiture", by Edna Talbott Whitely, Scott Co. ,Ky.
p. 558
After being prepared at Oxford, Ohio, Reuben Flournoy Ford graduated from Centre College at age 16, received his LLB from Transylvania and established a successful practice at Georgetown. After his marriage in 1843 to Mary Boswell Webb, they resided on the old Oxford Road, at the old Ford farm, her father's wedding gift to the young couple.
The Offutt family migrated from Maryland to Scott Co. in 1810, when Alexander Offutt was but 7 years old. He grew up to marry Emeline Smith, 1824-1853, and became the father of William N. Offutt (who m. 1868 Sue Webb Ford) in 1841 and four younger children. While attending Georgetown College, William N. Offutt enlisted in the confederate service under John Hunt Morgan, serving as a captain.
In about 1870 he moved to his wife's farm, "Elmwood" and there specialized in rearing fine short-horn cattle and revived the culture of tobacco in 1878.